In the current and past two recessions, interest rates never got very high and the Fed actually began to lower them before the contraction began.

现在和之前的两次衰退，利率根本就没有高过，实际上在衰退开始之前，美联储就开始降低利率。

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In monitoring and analyzing the activities of these Banks, the Fed obtains valuable information about trends and current developments in these markets.

在监管及分析这些银行的活动的过程中，美联储获取到关于这些市场的现状及发展前景的有价值的信息。

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Bernanke indicated that the Fed is prepared to take additional steps to stimulate the economy if the current lull in growth continues.

伯南克表示，美联储已经做好准备，如果经济增长继续低迷，将采取更多措施刺激经济。

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The current Fed regime has been non-traditional in so many ways, we should probably not expect anything quite so linear and relentless.

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Investors also think that there will now be a relatively dovish successor to Ben Bernanke, if the current Fed chairman decides to stand down when his term expires in 2014.

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the author of The Black Swan fame has written a new book titled Anti-Fragile: Things That Gain From Disorder in which he provides a reasoned basis for believing that the current Fed policy will bring us way more inflation and much sooner than expected.

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